Lysimachia fortunei ("Numatorano")

Japanese name: ヌマトラノオ （沼虎尾）
Scientific name: Lysimachia fortunei

[Overview]
A perennial 40–70 cm tall, growing in colonies in wetlands.
It has creeping underground stems.
The stem is cylindrical and erect, sparsely hairy, and sometimes tinged with red.
The leaves are simple and alternate, lanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, 4–7 cm long and 1–1.5 cm wide.
The leaves have sparse glandular dots.
An erect raceme 10–20 cm long and 1–1.5 cm across at the stem tip bears densely packed flowers.
The flowers are white, 5–6 mm across, and the corolla is 5-lobed.
The fruit is a spherical capsule 2–2.5 mm across.

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